Anheuser Busch Data Breach
July 18th, 2008
This is to inform you of a recent incident involving records containing information about you. While we do not believe that we are obligated...
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Security breach puts Greensboro Gynecology patients’ personal information at risk
July 15th, 2008
Patients at a Greensboro doctor’s office have been notified that their personal information – including Social Security numbers and addresses – was stolen in...
Criminal HIPAA case targets employee, not clinic, for breach
July 14th, 2008
Still, legal experts warn of state civil liabilities for physician practices in such situations.
The latest HIPAA criminal case may signal more aggressive efforts by...
Justice Breyer Is Among Victims in Data Breach Caused by File Sharing
July 9th, 2008
Sometime late last year, an employee of a McLean investment firm decided to trade some music, or maybe a movie, with like-minded users of...
Union warns EHRs should be secure
July 3rd, 2008
Failure to adequately secure electronic medical records could result in a court hearing or even criminal charges, warns the Medical and Dental Defence Union...
Mitigating Medical Identity Theft
July 1st, 2008
Medical identity theft accounts for 3 percent of identity theft crimes, or 249,000 of the estimated 8.3 million people who had their identities stolen...
Data Breach Reports Up 69 Percent in 2008
June 30th, 2008
Businesses, governments and universities reported a record number of data breaches in the first half of this year, a 69 percent increase over the...
Wards didn’t tell consumers about credit card hack
June 30th, 2008
An old name in retail was hit by a modern scourge — a hack of its customers’ credit card numbers — but didn’t inform...
Reps. Barton, Dingell To Introduce Legislation That Aims To Spur Nationwide Adoption of Electronic Health Records
June 24th, 2008
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair John Dingell (D-Mich.) and ranking member Joe Barton (R-Texas) on Tuesday plan to introduce a bill that would...
One in three IT staff snoops on colleagues
June 19th, 2008
One in three information technology professionals abuses administrative passwords to access confidential data such as colleagues’ salary details, personal e-mails or board-meeting minutes, according...